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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-03-27
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-17
DRAINAGE AND HEALTH. .
How the SalubrIty of Surface is Influenced
by Surface Conditions.

by SurIace COnulUlOnss
Substantial agricultural benefits, i'm
proved health and greater longevity
always follow the removal of an excess
of water from the surface of either
farming or unused lands. Vigorous
old age and long life are more fire.
quently found in old countries, such as
have long since got rid of malaria, by
having removed the surplus water in
which free deposit of vegetable mat
ter, the accumulation of ages, had
given off its poison, under the influence
of each summer and September sun.
1t has been said of some of the Western
States that it has been necessary TO: one
generation to be offered as a sacrifice
to malarial influences that the next fol-
lowing may enjoy fair health. This
has in part been unavoidable, for the
reason that new alluvial soil can not be
turned up to the sun and titled without
setting free whatever of malal'ial poison
is within it, whether the surface be
water-logged OF not. Mere surface
drainage is of course better than no
drainage at all. great deal better, in
fact; but water in excess, hidden under
the surface, is nevertheless source of
danger Pointed proof of this is found
in the fact that dwelling built upon
ground where water stands beneath,
though at a depth of three or four feet,
is not safe house to live in.
Due consideration is not given to the
salubrity of the climate by our law
makers, in so far as this is influenced
by surface conditions. The law is Sc
we're and explicit enough regarding
what are known rs nusances, but men
are permitted to harbor real and dam
gerous nuisance in the form of stag
nant water accumulation upon their
farms, and may 90 upchallenged SO
long as they place no carcasses Of dead
beasts IN the stagnant pools and do not
drain these onto their neighbor' land.
1t may be answered that the law has
no right to dictate how a man shall
take care OF his own lands, but when
we take into account the matter of
health in Il neighborhood, and the fact
that water finds its own level, and that
neither section lines, fences, nor lines
dividing one mans land from the land
belonging to another, prevents water
from the swamps and ponds on one
man $ premises going to the sub-soil of
adjacent lapds, it should cease to be %
question whether the injured party has
| equitable rights that the other should
be made to respect. -NatioaaL Live
Stock Joa1aqL
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-17
FUNNY MARK TWAIN.
The First Lecture Advertised by the Then
Obscure American Humorist.

The First Lecture Advertised by the Then
Obscure American Humorst.
"Twenty-five years ago, when 1 first
went to Carson" said well-known
gentleman of that city at downtown
hote', ''Mark Twain was just beginning
to come to the front as humorist. He
was quiet, gentlemanly sort of
fellow, who could tell good story and
take his liquid rotations with the boys
and not show it much, even if he would
drink all day.
''In those early days most any sort of
an entertainment brought out big
crowd, and when it was announced one
day that Mark was to deliver Il lecture,
for the benefit of something or other, at
the Episcopal church, it was understood
from the start that there would be
perfect crush.
"Well, Mark assembled the steps into
the pulpit about eight o'clock, there
being whole lot of the boys and young
women, friends of his, as well as good
many old people in front. Mark made
a very polite bow, and then unfolded
gigantic roll of brown paper. People
thought at first it was Il big map, but
it turned out to be his lecture written
on great sheets of grocers' brown
paper, with an ordinary grocers' mark
ing-brush. After his bow he turned
his back around to the audience and
,raned his head up to the lamp, and
.hus read from the big sheets, as though
t would be impossible for him to see
any other way.
1.-The lecture was on The Future of
Nevada and was the funniest thing
ever heard. He prophesied the great
IRA of prosperity that was before us
md sought to encourage us residents
If the sagebrush region by foreteliing
what appeared to be GOlconda-like
ales of impossible mineral discoveries.
| Right on the heels of it, however, came
me marvellous discoveries of Virginia
City, and then we thought he wasn't
70 far off in his humorous predictions.
Many time have | thought Of that
ecture of Mark Twain. 1t ought to
nave been published. have read all
his books, and | never saw any thing
I any of them better than this. San
francisco Examiner.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-17
Two Rich Cattle Queens.

The richest widow in Colorado was
the wife of the late John w. Tiff, who
was known some years ago as the cat
tie king of Colorado. Illf left about
1905 head of cattle, and it is said
that his widow manages his estate as
well as any business man could. She
went to Colorado rs II sewing-machine
agent, though she came of wealthy
family and could have remained home
doing nothing. She there met Iliff and
married him. and l doubt not the eX-
perience she obtained in connection
with the sewing-machine aids her in
the management of her fortune. Speak
inc of cattle, there is cattle queen in
Texas, near Corpus Christi-Mrs.
Rogers-said to be worth $1,000 600,
and who has many times as much stock
as Job had in his most prosperous days.
Her husband is a preacher, but Mrs.
Rogers manages the business. She
sells the stock herself, buys all the
supplies, and can ride n horse as well
as any of the many cowboys whom she
has in her employ. Boston Iraceleg
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-17
BUTTER FOR EXPORT.
That Used by Uncle Sam Must Keep Sweep
for Three Years.

cone hundred thousand pounds of
butter IN air tight packages, is what
Uncle Sans navy requires every year."
said an old butter packer. "A special tin
package is used" he added. (which is
Theoretically sealed either by soldering,
or by employing machine constructed
for the purpose, and we are obliged to
guarantee that the butter will keep
sweet for three years. We use sim
liar package for all butter exported to
the tropics. 1t is round tin can,
which is filled from the bottom and
sealed by machine. 1t is made in all
sizes, from half pound to twenty-eight
pounds. Sizes above five pounds are
provided with a pail and an extra cover,
so that they can be used as pail when
empty. The utility of the package is
of some moment in many parts of
South America and the West Indies
that the butter goes to. That they are
appreciated may be inferred from the
fact that have seen ladies use them to
boil laces in. We send the very finest
butter and also the poorest, according
to the demand. In some parts of the
West Indies butter is too expensive
and the inhabitants use lard, while
portions of Venezuela, Costa Rica and
San Domingo take the best butter that
that they can get. The export of but
ter to the tropics is q specially in the
hands of two or three houses, while the
European trade is scattered among
large number. We send butter to En-
gland and Germany in the original
packages. A good quality is called for,
but the high price of best creamery
keeps it at home, and only the fair
grades reach the other side. A few
years ago refrigerator compartments
were put in all the large steamers, but
they were too expensive and have
nearly all been removed. Now ship
pers wait for cool weather and take
their chances. The oleomargarine
scare hurt our butter trade in England,
but that is over now, and the bad sea-
son in Denmark and Ireland has made
the demand active. ~ Y Mail and
Express.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-17
SALTWATER DAY.
An Old New Jersey Festival That Is Rap
idlyNGoing Out.

| Auy*%1oihS Ouu
The custom of observing Saltwater
Day is so old that it is supposed to be
of Dutch origin; but long before the
Dutch came to New Jersey-the Stats
in which the day is celebrated-the In
dams had a custom which might very
we'll have furnished the model. 1t is IA
fact established in history that the New
Jersey Indians were in the periodical
habit of assembling in the neighbour
hood of the salt water for the purpose
of feasting upon oysters, and the gath
ering and eating of oysters was one of
the chief features of Saltwater Day OBJ
served among the Monmouth County
farmers in later years. Before oysters
became private property, and when
there were natural beds of them along
the Jersey shore, farmers living within
twenty or thirty miles felt keen oys-
ter hunger about the first of every Au
gust, and on Saltwater Day, which oc-
ours at this season, the beds were made
to suffer. They suffered so much that the
New Jersey Legislature finally passed
law refraining people from taking
oysters by any means except the I'M
supplemented feet and hands, so that
for several years previous to the time
when oysters ceased to be public prop
erty the farmers on Saltwater Day
could obtain this delicate food only by
"treading' it; that is, by working the
oysters from the bottom, and skillfully
bringing them to the surface with their
toes.
South Amboy used to be favorite
place of gathering on Saltwater Day,
and so lately as five years ago as many
as one hundred tent-top wagons brought
in their loads of people from the back
lying farms to assist in this celebration.
At South Amboy the festivities are
concluded in single day, but
at other placcs-and notably at Point
Pleasant, or Sea Girt, as it is now
called, part of the village of
Squan-three days are devoted to
them. Of course at these festivals at
the edge of the sea there have come to
be other Joys than the Joy OF eating
oysters. Bathing, dancing and miscel-
laneous feasting are to be reckoned
among the delights of Saltwater Day.
There are stores of cold fowl, sand
wiches, homemade pies, cider and pink
lemonade, and some of the wagon-tops
keep the sun off from key or demi-
john of apple-jack. The bathing suits
worn by the farmers and their wives
and daughters are homemade, the
same as the pies, and are commendable
for their comfort and serviceability
rather than their fit.
But the observance of Saltwater
Day is not what it used to be. Rail-
roads have brought the sea and the
oysters nearer to the farmers, and the
season for the celebration is LARGELY
gone. The colored people still observe
the day with considerable fervor at
Long Branch, but the festival, speaking
generally, is one which is rapidly going
| out--HarDer'S WeekLH
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-17
INFERIOR RUBBER.
Fraudulent Tricks Practiced by Dishonest
Shoe Dealers.


Rubbers supply favorite field for
fraudulent propensities. Consumers
know little or nothing of quality from
appearance. The cheapest goods made,
if highly finished, may readily be sold
for the best. The best boot made is
known as pure gum. Ranking next to
this, but still graded as first quality, is
the best dull finish. But of the dull
boot there are, of course, as many
grades and qualities as there are COM
panies making them. When wearers
come to buy them it is surprising how
many pure gum shoes some dealers
have, and how cheaply they sell them.
A few years ago a manufacturer, re-
marking upon this rather curious feature
of the business, undertook to remedy
the evil He ordered the "dull finish
boots stamped "not pure gum" The
audacious dealers erased the first of
these words, and the remaining two
aided sales materially. Certain label
manufacturers have done considerable
business printing and preparing paper
labels stamped pure gum, )" for the use
of retail shoe dealers, to be pasted on
their boots. We have heard that the
trick of substitution is practiced by some
dealers. The shoes are selected, fitted,
paid for, it may be, and left to be de-
livered at the home of the buyer, OF
taken to another part of the store to be
put up in u parcel. During the latter
progress a cheaper and altogether in
ferior pair same size and width, are
put in their place for those purchased
We should hope, for the credit of human
nature, that swindling of this bold
nature was very rare. Shoe and Leather
Po1nrf0r
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-17
LlZZIE'S REBELLION,
The First and Last of SeIf-willed Little
Girls Naughty Freak.

This was the first of it: Four-year-
old Dewey, in his long white night
gown, was kneeling by mammals knee,
saying his prayers, and when to 'Jesus,
tender Shepherd. lead me-" he added:
God bless papa and mamma and little
sister, Lizzie, who was sitting upon
mammals lap, like any other two-year
old baby, piped up, to every ones sur
prise:
Not little sister; little sister take
care hers SELF
This Lizzie repeated every evening,
and she grew so naughty and rebellious
over it that grandma said;
at is only baby's freak, and it will
be soon forgotten if we don't take any
notice of it.
So every night for some time Dewey
waited until his little sisters blue eyes
were fast asleep before his prayer was
uttered.
One morning, after several weeks had
slipped by in this way, the two children
were at play in the grain-room at the
| barn.
Don't leave little sister. Dewey"
and Don climb, baby" said mamma,
as she left them and ran across the
garden to neighbours.
Lizzie, who was as fond of climbing
as if she had been made with claws,
like kitten, instead of with plump,
dimpled fingers and toes, paid no heed
to her mamma $ words, but scrambling
upon a ricketv chair, she soon gained
the top of high bench, and from there
climbed upon hogshead, over the
open top of which was thrown large
piece of sacking, perhaps to keep the
chickens out of it.
Instead of the firm foundation she ex-
pected to find, there was nothing to
hold her, and down she went nearly to
the bottom upon few bushels of
green oats But she was not hurt, and
not very badly frightened.
"Oh! oh! Lizzier' shrieked Dewey.
care you dead?- are you dead, Lizzie?"
NO." came the smothered answer;
I'm awful s'prised."
Pretty soon she called again: care
you crying, Dewey What are you
crying for?"
80 yes sobbed the little boy. 81
don't know what to do. l can't get
you out, and mustn't leave you to go
for mamma. o dear!'
"Why don't you pray?" said Lizzie,
encouragingly. Toll God Lizzie's
tumbled into a hole where she can't
take care hers self"
just then the butcher appeared in
his white frock, and seeing Dewey's
grief, he inquired what the matter was.
Then, as he reached down his long
arms and lifted Lizzie by herup-reached
hands, she sobbed for the first time:
80, thank you, God, for coming
down for me. I'll let Dewey ask you
to take care of me every time now"
And she did. So that was the last of
it.-Ha1per's Young People.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-17
COMMISSIONING.
A Practice Which, When Carried to Ex.
cess, Results in Death.

ScSs1 Acbui1S DeaUhs
tits perfectly we'll known to phvsc::.ns
that excessive Notwithstanding does
do a great deal of harm. In the first
place, people who smoke cigarettes do
more smoking than those who use cigars
and pipes. If man is going to leave
his office to run across the street for a
minute, or is walking to the corner to
take horse car, he will not light cigar;
he knows it must be thrown away "a.
mediately, and sense of economy re-
strains him. But if he is in the habit of
rolling cigarettes, he may take Whit
at any time, and is pretty sure to be al
ways doingit. The result is that where
non-smoker has the benefit of some
fresh air in the lungs whenever he is
out of doors, the cigarette smoker takes
in air charged with nicotine.
Smokers of cigars and pipes do not,
as rule, inhale smoke, but cigarette
smokers do, Why this should be, it is
difficult to say, but it is an acknowl-
edged fact that it is so. Il is thus easy
to see why the results of cigarette
smoking should be so baneful. The air
in reaching the lungs and the blood
goes through the windpipe and the
bronchial tubes. Between the windpipe
and the lungs the bronchial tubes keep
dividing into two. This incessant sub
division reduces them ultimately to
great fineness. In the lungs they are
scarcely wider than hair. At the end
of each bronchial tube there is what
is called pneumonia Clio bule. 1t
lis in this globule that the air and blood
meet; it is here that the blood
becomes "aerated," or oxygenized.
In the case of men who inhale
the smoke of cigarettes, these
globules, instead of receiving fresh air,
receive air charged with nicotine. Ii
order to know the extent to which the
lungs receive the poisoned air it is only
necessary to remember that the area of
these pneumonia globules is some thou
sand and two hundred square feet.
There is popular notion that the
paper wrappings of cigarettes do the
mischief. The paper perhaps does burn
the mouth. The wrappers ofsome Turk
ish cigarettes are impregnated with
opium, and these, of course, do harm;
but that is not the fault of the cigarette.
The trouble with cigarettes is that
people will smoke cigarettes at times
when they will not smoke cigars, and
that cigarette smokers thus use more
tobacco than other people, and that
cigarette smokers inhale tobacco and
take into the lungs air charged with
nicotine N Y Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-17
FIRST USE OF GOLD.
How the Soft Yellow Metal Came to BE
the Root of All Evil.

HOW the SOFT yellow Metal Came to BE
the Root of All Evil.
The most interesting question of all
about gold is, how did it come to be the
root of all evil? What has made this
particular yellow metal, above all
stones and minerals, the standard of
value, the medium of exchange, and
the object of all men S ardent devotion?
In order to solve that curious problem,
we must look at the origin of its use
among mankind and the evolution of its
employment as money. Primitive man,
hunting about in the rivers for fish and
in the forests for venison, had other
wants, philosophers tell us, than those
of mere vulgar food and drink; the
noble thirst for trinkets, the aesthetic
desire for personal decoration, which
now gives rise to fashion plates and
diapers shops and jewelers. windows,
was already vaguely alive within his
swelling bosom. He adorned himself
even then with necklets of boars' teeth
and shining fossils and girdles of
shell and belts of wampum, all
which things are found, in company
with the white chalk and the red ochre
that made primitive woman beautiful
forever. among the concreted floors of
the Dordogne caverns. Primitive
woman was not fair to outer view, as
other maidens be; on the contrary, she
was no doubt distinctly dark. not to
say dusky; somewhere about the pre-
else complexion of the modern negress,
her nearest surviving representative;
but already she knew how to keep in
the fashion; she loved gold, as Walpole
long afterward remarked of her remote
descendants, and, when she could get
them, diamonds also. Ages before any
other metals were smeltc3 or manu-
featured into useful implements gold
and silver had attracted the attention
of our savage ancestors, and probably
still more of our savage ancestresses.
There was every reason why this should
be so. They are generally found in the
native state, they have glitter and bril-
liancy and beauty of color; they are soft
and workable and easily pierced; they
can be readily strung in ingots as beads
for necklets, and, at a somewhat higher
grade of culture, they can be hammered
with ease into rude ornaments. Hence
it is not surprising that from very
early age primitive man should have
priced nuggets of gold and ingots of
silver for personal Ginkets, just as he
priced the shells and pebbles, the
garnets and carnelians, the jade and
crystal, the ivory and feathers, from
which he manufactured his rude adorn-
ments.- CornhtU Magazine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-09-17
CHINA'S WEST POINT.
How Military Cadets are Educated in ths
Flowery Kingdom.

Plowery Kingdom.
Nearly three years ago the Chinese
Government, at the instigation of Ii
Hung Chang, decided to establish an
academy for forming staff of we'll
instructed native officers. With this
object the first body of Chinese cadets
were brought together and installed in
the Office of the admiralty at Tien-Tsin.
This was in March, 1885, and very soon
afterward the construction of a sepa-
rate building for them was commenced.
This is now completed, and it is to serve
as the model of similar buildings. one
of which is to be erected in the capital
of each of the eighteen provinces. The
academy of Tien-Tsin is situated on the
Peiho, and occupies a space of more
than six hundred square yards. 1t is
excellently adapted to the requirements
of such building, while its architect
ural appearance is in harmony with
the local surroundings. Besides large
number of reception and dining rooms
and the dormitories, there are. four
great lecture halls, two large saloons,
room for military games, another for
Photographed work, and third for
printing, two chemistry halls, and an
apartment for drawing. The building
is capable of accommodating three
hundred students and the administra-
tive staff. On wide plain adjoining
the building are encamped under tents
considerable body of infantry and
artillery. AT the head of the corps of
the cadets is a Chinese officer, the
Taotai Yang Tsung Pau. His colleague
is, however, Major PAUL., of the Ger
man artillery. The masters and in
structors are also foreign officers,
chiefly Germans, and the system of
training is borrowed from the German.
The sons of the upper classes are alone
admitted between the ages of fourteen
and fifteen. At first this rule was not
observed, and there was one instance
of cadet being as old as thirty-fve.
Each student is expected to remain
four years in the general class, where
he is taught Chinese, writing, foreign
languages. geography and natural
science. After the termination of this
preliminary course he is transferred
for year To one of the school COM
panics attached to the corps. He then
serves for a year with the regular
army, and finally returns to the
military school for a years instruction
in military science. After passing
his examination the cadet receives his
commission and joins one of the regi-
ments of the Chinese army. Chicago
Times.